workshifting
pp. Using portable devices and wireless technologies to perform work wherever and whenever it is convenient.
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Examples
2011
Trends such as IT consumerization, worker mobility, cloud computing and workshifting mean that more people are accessing enterprise desktops, applications and data from more places and in more ways than ever before.
2011
Did you go into the office this past Labor Day weekend? Did you work this past Labor Day weekend? If your answer to the first question is "no" but you answered "yes" to the second," you and your business are part of the growing trend toward workshifting.
—Rieva Lesonsky, “How Workshifting Is Changing the Way We Work,” Small Business Trends, September 07, 2011
1995 (earliest)
This special report reviews the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) movement that is rapidly changing the way Americans work.
—Philip M. Burgess & Paul, “Workshifting,” Center for the New West, January 01, 1995
Posted: January 19, 2012